Article: Wireless laptops engage students

BLOOMINGTON - Wireless computers are "hot" in the technology field. They're also hot in the classroom.

Sheridan Elementary School teacher Curt Broughton said wireless laptops have turned his fifth-grade students into "engaged learners."

"That means they're active participants in their education," he said.

The class has used the computers to create presentations about Lewis and Clark, who led the first United States overland exploration of the West and Pacific Northwest. Other presentations have focused on famous blacks, American Indians and the drug prevention program called DARE.

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